Example sentences of "[is] much [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 's much taller than the woman , and she sort of hangs from his neck when they kiss , stretching up on tiptoe to reach him .
2 It 's much cheaper than the show products .
3 I tell you something , it 's much better than the operating table !
4 The quality of the wood is very reasonable ; as with many other guitars the grain at the edges is much wider than the grain in the middle , but it 's a good overall colour and free of blemishes .
5 But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish .
6 ‘ A bad marriage is much worse than no marriage at all . ’
7 It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten .
8 ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country .
9 ‘ Imagining things is much worse than the reality , ’ he told her .
10 A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere .
11 If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition .
12 It 's a game of two halves : the disk version is much better than the tape , with the addition of management and league option .
13 My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman .
14 For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction .
15 A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning .
16 Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas .
17 The entropy of gases is much higher than the entropy of solids .
18 Without question , a gazelle in a herd is much safer than a gazelle by itself .
19 Not all women can use IUDs and they complain about the side effects of the Pill , but the Pill is much safer than an abortion . ’
20 As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging .
21 ‘ The number of closures is much greater than the Government believes it to be .
22 Subsequent to this there is an amplified second phase of neutrophil chemotaxis which is much greater than the original .
23 As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market .
24 A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts .
25 The high value of E/G in some materials such as carbon-fibre composites , highly oriented polymers or certain copolymers may mean that the decay length — is much greater than the length of the standard specimen .
26 This is especially important if one person is much heavier than the other .
27 Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre .
28 Now one is much larger than the other .
29 Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way .
30 The pixel size of the TV-scanned image is much larger than the pixel size generated by a drum scanner .
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